Alien Rock: The Rock 'n' Roll Extraterrestrial Connection

by Michael Luckman

Book Overview

Whether you're a UFO skeptic, believer, or merely a rock music fan, Alien Rock takes you on a fascinating and irreverent journey exploring the extraterrestrial stories of your favorite rock icons. From Elvis to the Beatles and from Michael Jackson to Marilyn Manson, countless rock stars have claimed to have seen, communed with, been inspired by, and sometimes even descended from extraterrestrials. Now you can discover these stories for yourself in...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 074346673X
• ISBN13: 9780743466738
• Release Date: July 2005
• Publisher: Gallery Books
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

GREAT BOOK!

If you enjoy R & R, get this book. If you have been in the business, definatly get this book. The blue light and other unusual things were normal to you and no one else will get it. I'm a believer...

Takes me back to the days

I enjoyed this book and what it shared ,little known beliefs and attitudes of rock stars. I always knew about Hendrix..........I really liked this book

Thought Provoking Profiles

I had forgotten that the Canadian comedian Dan Aykroyd is also a rock and roller (of sorts) because nowadays every other word out of his mouth is some sort of testimonial to belief in alien abduction and "The Force Is Out There." A bizarre twist in his career, lasty I remember of him was starring as Jessica Tandy's son in DRIVING MISS DAISY. But apparently she told him of the strange events that had besieged her on the set of COCOON and convinced him that there are alien forces watching us at almost all times but not to worry, they are largely harmless. Michael Luckman interviews Dan for this book, along with a host of other rockers, some of whom, like Jimi Hendrix, were actually taken away from our planet by sources unknown. Like Dan Aykroyd, Marc Bolan of T.Rex started out as a comedian and gradually became a prophet of the unknown like Nostradamus. It is believed that supernatural forces made him shorter than other human beings so that he was able to pose as a child and evade even the most sophisticated of alien surveillance systems. The same forces for good wrote many of his lyrics, as Luckman demonstrates. He's old enough to remember that "T.Rex" was merely the glam punk abbreviation for Tyrannosaurus Rex, a folk-rock group which sought to reanimate the ancient British legends of Stonehenge, Merlin, Excalibur, and the sleeping spirits. Bolan met a human wizard in a French castle near Marseilles who could levitate them both ten feet into the air, and ate nothing but snails, trying to imitate through immersion the DNA-like structure of spiralling which you can find in the Fibonacci sequence of numbers as well as crawling animals. In some ways, the French know best. When Maurice White of Earth, Wind and Fire was looking for some names for his group, which combines old time gospel harmonies with modern percussion and synthesized beats, he turned to the 18th century magicians who thronged the court of Marie Antoinette. Luckman mentions that 74 per cent of Americans believe that they have been aware of alien abductions, but he is strangely silent about some other figures. I dock this book a star (think about our "star" system for measuring excellence for a minute--it's terribly suggestive, ne c'est pas?) for its physical shortcomings, the pages which tend to roll up like dead leaves unless sprayed down with water, and some of the badly reproduced illustrations, such as Giger's depiction of Deborah Harry as a space alien, she looks really bad and definitely not ready for prime time.

Close On the Truth

I found the book to be very interesting from the standpoint of a connection to the paranormal of most artists, their music, and their life experiences. I did think that the belief of the rock star Jimmy Hendrix was a bit off the mark. Jimmy was on a spiritual path that was leading him to a higher consciousness. Unfortunately for him, he had a manager, at the time, that was heavily into drugs and believed himself to be a representative of a deity. Yes, Jimmy was sent to spread a message...but it was not from an alien. Extraterrestrials and rock stars or artists of any sort do seem to have some sort of connection. This book opens up the possibility that they, the artists, are being used to send a message. It is just for us to figure out what that message is. Read the book and see if you can figure the message out.